I saw the light – I saw the light – Oh I saw the light – He lived in a crowded
Jamaican infirmary – Many were brought there to die – Days of starvation
complete deprivation – And illness had taken his sight – But a doctor came to
the village there – And treated him with the finest care –
Said that time would tell – The doctor went to bed that night – And when he awoke
in the morning light – The man could not be found – He was singing from a hill
Oh I can see – I saw the light – I saw the light – Oh I saw the light –
And he sang Amazing Grace to show – A loving God for all to know –
With love and faith and grace – Oh I can see –
We met and my eyes could not hide how I felt – When I looked at him tattered and torn –
But he captured me with a smile that seems so out of place – From the pain
he’d endured – And he told me of a sacrifice – That had given him eternal life –
He was not alone – He spoke about a greater plan – And I began to understand –
My life was not my own – And I am here to say –
And I sang Amazing Grace to show – A loving God for all to know –
With love and faith and grace – Oh I can see – Amazing Grace how
sweet the sound – That saved a wretch like me oh – I once was lost
but now am found – Was blind but now I see –
I sit and watch you sleep, as you dream your dangerous dreams I feel the…
They said it would last forever We'd taken our vows We started our lives together…
Come make your complaint to the Bootleg Saint He's been gone, keepin' on, keepin' on…
(lyrics by James Seals; music by James Seals & Dash Crofts, 1971) From the albums…
Hard times the throw is off line pictures of black and grey Soft minds backed…